New website designed to build national resilience to extreme heat
Climate change is contributing to more and longer heat waves in communities across the country, including western cities like Phoenix, pictured here. (Image credit: Kevin Ellis/Pixabay)
On July 26, NOAA will host a media briefing via GoToWebinar to unveil and provide a tour of Heat.gov, a new website that brings together all the federal agencies and programs focused on extreme heat resilience. The website will provide information and tools to improve federal, state, and local strategies to reduce the health, economic, and infrastructural impacts of extreme heat.
Extreme heat, now accelerated by a warming climate, is the leading cause of weather-related deaths in the United States, killing more than 700 people per year. Much less dramatic than hurricanes, floods and tornadoes, heat is considered the invisible killer, affecting the lives and health of people across the country, particularly our nation’s most vulnerable communities.
Heat.gov was created by the National Integrated Heat Health Information System (NIHHIS) and Esri, a geographic information system company, to be the nation’s premier source of information on heat health for the public, health care workers, and national, state, tribal and local governments. NIHHIS was created by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Commerce’s NOAA to bring the federal government together to focus proactively on solutions to the issue of extreme heat and its impacts on Americans.
WHEN
11 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, July 26.
WHAT
Virtual media briefing via GoToWebinar followed by Q&A
WHO
- Ali Zaidi, deputy White House national climate advisor
- U.S. Department of Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo
- Rick Spinrad, Ph.D., NOAA administrator
- Patrick Breysse, Ph.D., CIH, director of the Center for Disease Control’s National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
- Hunter Jones, program manager, NIHHIS for NOAA's Climate Program Office
- Dan Pisut, environmental content lead for Esri Living Atlas of the World
REGISTRATION
Interested reporters must register using this GoToWebinar link.
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8403950425470052367 offsite link
